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Series 2013 - Final: Part 2
Emma Willis hosts more live coverage of the final.
The housemates compete in a breath test challenge.
Emma Willis hosts more live coverage of the final.
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this was awful! i couldnt watch it becuse it just kept freezing!
I MISS ARRON! But luke s is really hot! Sara, luke s or conor to win! OMG i hate lauren and deana ugggh! and scott hes just as bad
whyy does this keep going to breaks randomly :( please sort it, putting me of watchin it now
how on earth do people actually like all of these fake people? its nonsense. deana is horrible and cannot say things to people's faces and then lies when she does. and as for luke a, adam and lauren, they are the slyest people to have ever been on the programme. people need a reality check.
I really want Luke A and Adam to go, so boring
how can people not see how two faced lauren is? shes manipulative and fake toward ashley, shiev, etc. then bitches about them to luke a saying theyre fake. shes such a hypocrite
1) can't believe bb did that to adam. 2) at least his comments were genuine and every time he said something he validated his reason. although luke is alright adam was right about the aron thing. 3) if you look at all the house mates responses in the secret room only shiv and crazy deluded caroline were really objecting to his comments...even connor was quiet.....so deep down they know he is right in his observations.......4) shiv let me down man.....i liked her at first 5) if adam or luke or deanna go up I won't be happy
what big brother did to adam was low . it up set me a lot . it bad tv when you have to make a man cry for is fews on is house mate . and then let them watch it . bb that was bad, with all the thing going on in the world . you were the lowist , over people have have a corse . what was yours ? ... FEWER. SAD
Adam to win, he's lovely!!! He acts so mature and is so insightful. Love him. I know he ain't an angel though.
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hate everyone in that blue team apart from LUKE.A SARA LAUREN!! hate everyone in the green team apart from BECKY SCOTT ADAM DEANA
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Team Adam...Hope he wins.
cannot beleive caroline and sheivinne reactions, Caroline is such a bully and she knew what he was going to say she just wants everyone to turn on adam because of a personal vendetta against him, and Sheivinne generally thinks shes funny and the public are on her side, shes just ruined any chance she had of winning by trying to get everyone to turn against one of the nicest guys in the house. Hope Adam Wins, and shievinne is evicted, oh and shievenne, great acting their!!
where can i watch the video clips of coverage we dont see on big brother? i saw some last week but each time iv tried to find them again .. well i can't .. can anyone tell me where to look please? .. I like Shevon up until she went on and on about Adam. Can't she tell by the nominations that she isnt liked? and that what he was saying is only what he'd heard from the house? please can ANYONE tell me where to look for these video clips of events in the house? the ones that havent been seen i mean.. thanks a lot..
I HATE CAROLANE WITH A PASSION LITTLE SPOILT BRAT AND ANNOYING Shame for Adam but big brother was unfair for doing that thing
haha its your internet bruv it always plays for me lovin the series
same thing keeps happening to me!:( watch it on youtube instead works first time :)
I take it back - it's totally not working. I've been watching for about twenty-five minutes and all I've seen is 5 minutes of the show and lots and lots of adverts (I refuse to buy anything advertised on here when the show sticks and the ads run). It's stuck about 6 times. I filled in a survey a few weeks back, saying how great I thought Demand5 was, and since then it's barely ever worked properly. Wasting my time :(
what do i put in for the pin code ????
i want to watch bigbrothers episode today live,can i?
Ah, working now, sorry :)
Er, sorry, why is it saying 'Catch up on the latest episodes via our free Demand 5 iPad app. Download it now from the iTunes store' instead of letting me watch the show?
Er, sorry, why is it saying 'Catch up on the latest episodes via our free Demand 5 iPad app. Download it now from the iTunes store' instead of letting me watch the show?
Where do i find the pin code from because i don't know what pin code it is ?
i love this big brother but i have no idea why, most of them are just nasty and bullies, ashleigh's two-faced, sara's borin and only opens her mouth when she has to critisize someone like with Luke A in the diary room, shiv did seem to cry alot straight after what adam had said in the diary room so she's really fake and looks for pity, luke s is so tempermental and seems a bit dangerous, deana's voice gos through my head and she a cryin little drama queen, the worst out of them all are scott and caroline, the most nasty,vulgar, sneaky, twofaced, snakes in that house and becky isnt far behind them.. what happened to adam in that diary room was disgustin, poor man but i think he will get over it just fine and will pull himself back up.. hes amazin.. lauren and luke a to come 2nd and 3rd whereas adam should defs win without a doubt.. hes the most real person in that house and think he deserves it more than any of the others :) !
have been trying to watch last nights episode all day and it keeps freezing! its driving me mad!!!!!
Don't forget how nasty Conor was to the girls the other week. He's not the brightest chap and has that undertone of violence. He's uncomfortable to watch. Get him out please.
they ask him these questions and then when they hear the answers they knew were coming they freak out. theyre all pathetic and immature everyones entitled to an opinion so i think adam should win.
keeps freezing!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For those who see Caroline and Shiv, s behaviour entertaining must be just like her and I'm sure you would love to have them as YOUR freaks, I mean friends!
I agree that Caroline can be nasty but she adds entertainment to this show.. The 'outsiders' are a group of boring smokers, lets be honest, who wants to sit for an hour watching them smoke and talk about insanely boring stuff? Its a bloody game show, no one genuine should be able to win it.
what is the song right at the beginning? the instrumental
I think this says more about the other housemates than it does about Adam. They should have a look at themselves before they start judging him, they totally invaded his privacy and it was an awful position to put him in. He was simply being honest. If you're that concerned about what someone thinks of you then you can't be completely happy within yourself surely. And in this instance it's no wonder why certain people got uptight.
Get it sorted demand 5 every catch up i watch it freezes im sick of you
I like shiv and i dont know exactly what she has done wrong for people to hate her so much, she is real, she bitches but everyone in the house does and if i think closly luke a and adam do that a lot. she is also there for everybody like in that task when they had to scare her not to go in. the messages are personal, its up to her how she wants to react, u could see it meant a lot to her not everyone is affected in the same way. if she has a prblem with some one, she says it too her face eventually. she is nice and she does support people. to be fair what bb did to adam was out of order and that stuff shoud be between adam and bb. dont mind the show but would help with a bit less bitching.
Caroline may be rude and horrible , but she can be a very amusing housemate to watch aswell as conor, ashleigh and shievonne! Keep the good ones in GET LUKE A OUT!!!
Go adam, put them in there place hopefully they go up for eviction boop boop
I hate this player, it has playe the adverts about 6 times in a row and keeps frezzing, sort it out.
I want adam to win, he's a lovely man...Shivone and conner will be up, and I hope it's a double eviction.
Adam is Sooooooooooooooo anoying!! wat is his problem with Shiv he doesnt like her only because he sees her As competition. And can he pull his trousers up his a.r.s.e is VERY unattractive!
BB is cruel..what did the public do to deserve being tortured by Ashleigh and her inane ramblings. That was the worst rendition of any song in the History of the World. I thought Shevonne, Ashleigh and Caroline looked like exactly what they are..a coven of Backstabbers planning their next verbal assault..and we now know it's going to be Adam on the receiving end.
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Lauren needs to be careful. she comes across as a nice girl but she's very sucky up to the bully group. if she cared less what they thought of her and stuck up for herself and her friends i think she could win it. but at the moment she still wants to be liked by the 'popular' group and so she's trying to be nice to them and coming across as a bit two faced. like i say i think she's a nice girl.
Why has no one in the house noticed how horrible caroline is and how fake she is. she said to luke s - that's the best tattoo i've ever seen. then to shivonne - you're the funniest person i've ever met. as shivonne is clearly not funny in the slightest and luke's tattoo is nothing to write home about i'd have thought someone in the house would have noticed how insincere and fake she is.
can't stand shivonne and her irritating hand movements. she's so contrived. and self centred - so what if it's your birthday. get over yourself. thought adam was spot on.
This show is absolutely terrible, I cant believe people watch this awful TV....
This has made Adam stronger with the public. It's going to back-fire on Shiv and Caroline big time!
Caroline horrible horrible person i just wish they would have lost the task and all got to watch what she says in the diary room,how she has any freinds at all i will never know
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@Sally, Adam didn't "kinda know" until it was kinda too late. Adam's moment of realization came after he exited the diary room and found a hostile blue team departing the task room at the same time. He's a sharpe guy, so it didn't take much for him to figure out what had just occured. Ultimately, it was not Adam's fault - he's was just a good guy put into a bad situation.
Think you will find it De La Soul who said Me, myself & I
i love adam and luke a but caroline is gross and o is scott
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Adam is indeed cruel, if he kinda knew they were going to watch it, what he done was very mean by saying that about shivonne on her birthday.
ADAM TO WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He didn't deserve that BB!!!!!
Hate Caroline and Ashleigh. Carolline is a very bad rude person.Spoilt brat. Ashleigh is so thick and her laughter is just awful. Get them both out.
Im sorry but caroline irraites the living shit out of me.
caz has got really fat but their is no need for her to be so horid!!!!!!!
That was not cool what BB has done to Adam, so unfair! What is the point for nominations??? I can bet on my house that Adam will get at least 5 votes and the other person will either be Deana or Becks or both. Conor will be quiet down cos his sidekick is no longer there. Caroline needs to go, cannot stand her one bit!! I didn't like Sara at first but she's growing on me and I think she has a chance.
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What Adam said to them in the the secret room was ALL TRUE and chiveonne did not cry when her nieces were played to her, only crying noises No Tears . Spot on adam.
Im sorry.... But did Shiv actually just say this was her worst birthday ever??? I share the same birthday (07/07) and my worst birthday was waking up on my 21st birthday to discover that London had been bombed during rush hour! Have some perspective please woman!
That was awful watching Adam in the diary room. I feel really bad for him. Thought it was a place to go to express their feelings in private. Guess we all know that Adam will be up this week. Would love to see Caroline go as she drives me round the twist. Love Sara in the diary room. She sits on the blue side of the chair....so sweet
I love how the adverts buffer but the programme dont :@ Lovin this years bb tho, cant get enough of it, they are soooo bitchy!!
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Adam, Luke A and Lauren, best house mates in there, they are awesome! Real talk
I missed the live feed from Friday. Does anyone have any websites that I can watch it on? I was so very excited to see it. I'm so annoyed.
Caroline annoys the hell out of me crawling up peoples backsides all the time could she dig her claws in anymore??Lauren and Luke a are genuine people, i also think Luke s is a genuine person beneath his mussels and protein shakes.
love Luke A, Adam and Lauren. they are the nicest house mates. so what if they don't bring the most drama, i would rather a genuine person won the show than someone that's a back stabber or fake
omfg!! LAUREN'S LAUGH IS SOOOOO IRITATING PROPER MAKES ME CRINGE!!
Big bro that was not cool at all.. the diary room is sposed to be the one place where you can reveal whatever's inside and supposed to have confidentiality.. i really didnt like that.. you abused that right of a sense of security in the diary room..
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Wow! BB, great show... Luke A was spot on about Adam speaking as a mirror. About Caroline, Ashleigh, Conor and Shievonne. Sorry, Shievonne.... it being ya Birthday and all but you where so insistent in wanting to hear what Adam had to say...Odd you were so busy miss quoting him and not really taking the time to actually listening to what he had to say at all? Typical behaviour of someone not wanting to address their behaviour. Blame the mirror not the face....Hmmmmmm?
bb u was spiteful 2 do tha 2 adam! i hope it falls bak on u! i fort tha diary rom was a place wer u can cum n confine in big brother well clearly not ur settin up da house 4 a big argument and thas how BULLING is CAUSED! SHAME ON U BB! FORT U WER BETTER THAN THA UR JST LIKE CHANNEL 4!
longest eve to load they should do spmething about it!!! xx
It's not a case of 'the shows been on, they should put it online' - they need to format it and it takes forever to upload a 1 hour video
give demand 5 a break. they have loads of programes and films to upload at the same time. you all act like its a first world problem.
Heaven Almighty how long does it take to upload a minute show?!?!?
had it set to record too,,,,didn't record tonight for some reason.....nothing else clashed so annoyed I missed it tonight
awww please put tonights bb on as soon as poss my sky planner didnt record for some reason NOT HAPPY!!! lol xxx
WHYYY does channel 5 remove the comments but not put the episode up???????????????? WHY do we have to wait all the way till 2... useless dogs
Usually comes on about half past 2 am!
Please hurry up...I need my fix
why do they have time to remove comments but not put the episode up.
please can viewing big brothers latest episodes be quicker!!!! plzzzzzzzzz i really am sick of waiting for it to be up the next day!!!! ;(
please please please please please please put it on, i acc beg-.-! ITS NAT KWEL!
Dear 5 on Demand Please, if it isn't too much hassle.. Put big brother on here in the next 5 minutes because at 9 o clock, I was faaaaar to busy watching channel 4. Much appreciated. =')
When will this episode be available to watch on demand?
Omg as if I missed it and cant watch it now
What is Lauren all about, dont trust her one bit...seems to me to have a foot in either camp, and not deciding who to side with until she see's who,s on top. I;d be wary of that one.
this isnt working!!!!! why isnt it working on my laptop
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i like big brother it is so good
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Conor first was a bad influence on dopey aaron. Now his next puppies look like caroline and ashley. Conor, caroline and ash and sheivinne to leave in dat order
when will this be on demand?
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Ultimate Tenkaichi is easily the best looking Dragon Ball Z game I've ever seen. The characters look just like the popular anime series, complete with intense action and all of the characters you've come to know and love. On the surface it looks like it has everything going for it. There's just one problem -- Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi is one of the worst fighting games to come out in the last ten years.
While I wouldn't call myself a super fan of the series, I have found a lot of enjoyment in a number of the past Dragon Ball Z games. They might not be the deepest fighting games, but they generally have enough characters and charm to make them worth taking a look at. I expected Ultimate Tenkaichi to be more of the same. Boy was I wrong. Bandai's newest fighting game is so shallow that it makes last year's
Tenkaichi Tag Team
look like Virtua Fighter 5. The game is so shamelessly simple that I started to wonder if I was missing something. Sadly I wasn't.
Even hardcore fans of the series will agree that Dragon Ball Z has never been known for its complex fighting mechanics. The fun of the game is flying around huge environments and wielding almost superhuman special moves. You didn't have to worry about learning character specific moves or any of the nonsense found in other fighting games, because in this series everybody controlled exactly the same. The developers would make up for this shortcoming by giving people exciting stages and tons of characters to choose from. Unfortunately, Ultimate Tenkaichi throws all of this out the window.
Despite its beautifully rendered polygonal graphics, this newest Dragon Ball Z game is basically a 2D fighter. Oh sure, the camera likes to swoop all around these two combatants, but that's just for show. When it comes down to it you have very little control over where you go and what you do in a fight. You no longer have to worry about flying around the level, hiding behind the environments and all of the things you've come to expect from a Dragon Ball Z. In this game the two fighters are never more than a few inches from each other.
What makes this even more frustrating is the simplified gameplay. Even though the training mode talks about a smash attack (the "Y" button), you really only need to worry about the rush attack (the "X" button). Just as long as you keep mashing the "X" button you will keep getting hits. I never once had to worry about any of the other buttons; I just kept hammering that one button until my opponent had enough.
It's common to rack up a 30 - 40 hit combo by only a few button presses, none of which require special timing or button combinations. From time to time you'll punch your opponent across the screen, but that's okay because the game automatically shoots you to his location to keep the combo alive. Even the combo breaker is extremely simple, making each player choose between two types of attacks. If you guess the same move as the attacker you'll break his combo and have a chance to start your own assault. Like everything else in this game, the combo breaker is more about luck than actual skill.
Having spent much of my life learning to count animations, perform incredibly complicated combos and memorize special moves, I was horrified by how simple the combat in Ultimate Tenkaichi is. It's not a stretch to say that there were battles where all I did was hit the "X" button. I ended up having more fun seeing what I could do at the same time as playing this Dragon Ball Z game. Even when I was in the kitchen, checking email and generally keeping my eyes off the TV, I still had no problem beating the endless parade of familiar faces. For as exciting as the action looks on screen, it requires almost no input from the player.
Speaking of the excitement on screen, I found myself growing bored with the same special moves, same levels and same action. Even when I was fighting new characters, all of the action ended up playing out the same. There are some explosive events that happen in the middle of the rounds (including massive fireballs that blow the world wide open), but all that got boring after seeing it several times in a row. There's simply no variety here. The fireballs all look the same and the hand-to-hand combat is unsatisfying. For as exciting as it looks, this is often a very boring experience.
I also started to get annoyed by how tightly scripted each fight was. So much of your time is spent listening to two annoying characters yell at each other. This may be true to the cartoon, but it completely breaks the pacing of the battle. Even more frustrating is when each chat break is an excuse to refill your opponent's life meter. Too often the game artificially lengthens the fight by refilling both characters health, forcing you to do everything you did (mostly hit the "X" button) over again. There are a couple matches where this happens four or five times, rendering everything that happened earlier in the contest unnecessary. I might not mind these life refills if the actual combat was more interesting.
And just when you think things can't get any worse -- the bosses show up. In true Dragon Ball Z fashion, the bosses are big and menacing. They are also cheap and force you to learn a bunch of new moves. These boss fights tend to devolve into several minutes of painfully inaccurate quick time events. Screw up and it's back to the beginning of the fight to do it all over again. What makes this fate even more frustrating is that each time you'll have to endure unskippable cinemas. Several botched attempts will make you question why you're even bothering to play this woefully inadequate fighting game.
Sadly that's not the only horrible game type found in Ultimate Tenkaichi. From time to time you'll need to chase enemies down in what looks like a stripped down After Burner clone. The idea here is to stun the enemy in front of you long enough to get behind him and draft. Do this enough and you'll catch up and be treated to more inaccurate quick time events. There are also moments where you are the one being chased, which is even less fun. The best thing I can same about these segments is that they are mercifully short.
Beyond the general story mode, there's also a hero mode that lets you create your own Dragon Ball Z character and take him out on his own quest. While this sounds promising, this proves to be just as terrible as the rest of the game. Players hoping for a robust character creator will have to lower their expectations. At best you get to change color schemes and wardrobe. You can't even create a female Dragon Ball Z character. Once you've managed to select your character you'll have to put up with all of the bad fighting mechanics found in the main storyline.
Ultimate Tenkaichi also features the usual assortment of fighting game modes. As always you can play against friends or go online to challenge the world. These matches are marginally more fun, if only because the action isn't split up by conversations. However, the lack of depth rears its ugly head once again. It only takes a couple fights to get your fill of this Dragon Ball Z offering, which is a real shame considering how good earlier efforts have been.
As an interactive movie, Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi almost works. The gameplay is so muted that it often feels like you're just pushing a button to advance the narrative. Fans will be happy to see some of the most famous battles recreated on the Xbox 360, complete with story elements. The cinemas are also spectacular, featuring remastered clips from the anime. While the high definition animated clips are nice, not enough of the game is employs this technique. When you aren't watching videos, you're dealing with a wall of text filling in the rest of the story. The end result feels lazy, much like the rest of the game.
One could argue that this game skews young and isn't meant for me. That's probably true, especially since I'm not much of a Dragon Ball Z fan. However, even a kids' game should be deeper than Ultimate Tenkaichi. Kids these days can do more than mash the "X" button. Yet this game seems to be talking down to its audience. It has dumbed the fighting game experience to the point where it's hard to even call it a game anymore. This is the fighting game for people who actively hate fighting and games.
Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi is everything wrong with licensed games rolled up into one overpriced Xbox 360 disc. It's a huge step back in the series and left me scratching my head. Not even the stellar presentation is enough to make me recommend this disappointing fighting game. It's time for somebody else to take a stab at making a Dragon Ball Z game; fans of the series deserve better.
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A crackdown on bikes that violate regulations on aerodynamics forces companies to scale back.
by Joe Lindsey
When the racers in the 2010 Giro d'Italia roll down the start ramp in Amsterdam, some will do so on new time trial bike designs. Generally, that's of interest to enthusiast cyclists because it means that new, faster and more technologically advanced designs are being tested. But that's not the case this year.
Bicycling has learned that at the Giro the UCI will begin rigidly enforcing a set of rules on aerodynamic bike design that makes a number of teams' time trial bikes illegal, forcing them to scramble to implement solutions – in some cases imperfect ones – in time for the race. And, the regulations that are forcing these changes may affect the bikes you buy.
The UCI has long had rules on the books about aerodynamics in bike design. But in the past 18 months it has taken a renewed look at how it interprets and enforces those rules, a shift that has caught out a number of bikemakers.
The UCI did not confirm the May 7 enforcement date to Bicycling, instead saying that there should be no real surprise. "The technical regulations have been in force since January 2000," writes UCI Technical Coordinator Georges-Emmanuel Denjean in an e-mail response to Bicycling's request for comment.
"Every rider and every team (and consequently the bicycle industry) that intends to take part in the competitions organized according to UCI rules is expected to accept and respect these rules."
Prior to Denjean, the role of equipment regulation mostly fell to Jean Waulthier. But Waulthier is a consultant, not a full-time employee of the UCI, and Road Director Philippe Chevallier also handled correspondence with teams.
Denjean, who has been at the UCI for some time but only last year became Technical Coordinator, is widely seen in the industry as attempting to add some consistency and permanence to the UCI's efforts to enforce and communicate its rules.
But there's a debate in the industry about whether those rules are fairly and evenly enforced, or even all that productive. Significantly, neither Denjean nor Waulthier have engineering or product development backgrounds.
The UCI's initial push, in January 2009, dealt mostly with handlebars and seatposts and the so-called 3:1 rule, which requires frames and parts to have a cross-section length:width ratio of no greater than 3:1. Teams and bikemakers made appropriate changes and the matter was thought to be settled.
But this past spring, several bikemakers were again alerted by the UCI that their time trial frames or bikes – including designs that are currently for sale and had been raced in the ProTour for well over a season – were not in compliance with another rule, that requires that no part of the bike have more than an 8cm section width and for tube sections to fit within a template the UCI provided in a clarifying document last year.
The most high-profile casualty was the Specialized Shiv, raced by both Astana (and Tour de France winner Alberto Contador) and Saxo Bank (with Olympic and multiple world time trial champion Fabian Cancellara).
"Prior to the Volta Algarve, we learned that the UCI had concerns over the legality of the bike that they hadn't brought up before," says Specialized's marketing manager Nic Sims. Astana's Alberto Contador raced the event on an older Transition model. But Specialized wasn't the only manufacturer put on notice.
Giant also received word that its Trinity Advanced SL model was not in compliance, and racers from Garmin-Transitions (Felt) and Lampre (Wilier) were spotted racing different versions of their bike sponsors' time trial bikes at the recent Tour of Romandie. Saxo Bank and Rabobank riders were also on altered bikes.
The primary areas of emphasis appear to be reducing the size of external steering configurations, taking a hard look at downtube/headtube junctures, and strictly limiting rear wheel shrouding where the seatstays and seat tube meet.
A brief survey shows that at least seven ProTour teams at the Giro may be riding TT bikes that are not in compliance with the rules – Garmin-Transitions, Lampre, Rabobank, Saxo Bank, Astana, Milram and Footon-Servetto. Some, but perhaps not all, of these teams know about the changes.
And any team caught unaware could be put in the unfortunate position of seeing riders forced to ride their road bikes in time trials at the Giro. "It's going to screw a lot of manufacturers," says Trek's team liaison, Ben Coates, who works with RadioShack. "We know at least a handful of teams racing bikes that aren't in compliance."
And, notoriously inconsistent enforcement of the rules by UCI commissaires means that even carefully designed replacement frames aren't guaranteed an OK. "The regulations are arbitrary at best," Coates continued. "But the policing of those rules if poor, and the interpretation from commissaire to commissaire is even worse."
Many teams have experience with imprecise or even incorrect enforcement. At last year's Tour de France, mechanics for the Garmin team were briefly thrown into a panic when a UCI technical commissaire told the team the day before the start in Monaco that its base handlebars didn't comply with the rules. A short time later, they were told that was a mistake and the handlebars were actually legal.
That's a characteristic that extends to even the UCI headquarters in Aigle, Switzerland. Some bikemakers told us they felt the communication with the organization was clear; others indicated that the UCI seems to bend over backward to be as vague as possible about the rules.
"Even though we received a message that the (Trinity) frame wasn't in compliance, it's not as cut and dried as that," says Giant's marketing manager, Andrew Juskaitis. "We're still talking about what it takes to get into compliance. It is an issue in flux."
For the UCI, Denjean said only that commissaire training was of "the utmost importance and is constantly improved to ensure consistent rules enforcement," but added that it was "necessary that the cycling teams and the manufacturers face up to their responsibilities…to respect the rules and to develop and produce compliant equipment."
That disconnect – many manufacturers say they are trying their best to follow the rules, but aren't getting much guidance or help from the UCI – has caused some friction between the two groups.
Giant and Specialized are two members of an organization called GOCEM, or the Global Organization of Cycling Equipment Manufacturers. Co-founded by Phil White at Cervelo, GOCEM's goal is to seek some transparency and consistency on equipment rules, and advocate for a place at the decision-making table for bike makers. (I attempted to contact White with questions, but due to business and personal travel, he was unavailable for comment in time for this story.)
GOCEM's stance, and possibly its very reason for existence, it seems, may be part of the problem.
"I think (the UCI) is kinda pissed at the bike industry saying, 'We need to be considered'," says Scott Bicycles' general manager Scott Montgomery. Scott didn't join GOCEM partly because he felt it would be counterproductive. And, he says, some of the companies that are now complaining willfully ignored the rules.
"What we determined is a lot of companies didn't read the regulations," he says. "They weren't faking it; they were open about it."
If a company didn't bother to follow the rules, Scott suggests, it's sort of getting what it deserves. Trek's Coates agrees. "We opted to stay out of GOCEM because we felt like it was formed by people who'd ignored the rules and now they're bummed that enforcing the rules would cost them money," he says.
The UCI's Denjean said that some manufacturers have been proactive and established "fruitful and constructive cooperation" when developing new designs, but "a few others haven't ascertained sufficiently in advance that their products were rule-compliant or simply ignored the technical rules, which induces riders to face sanctions."
As it happens, Scott says that the UCI has told Scott, in writing, that the Plasma3 is UCI legal. Trek has similar assurances on its Speed Concept bike, says Coates.
This is somewhat ironic given that another tenet of UCI equipment rules, outlined on the first page of the clarifying document, explicitly bans prototype equipment in races. Both Specialized and Giant sell their bikes to the public; Trek and Scott, currently, don't sell the Speed Concept or Plasma3. (The Plasma3 is set to be for sale in 2011, while Coates says that Trek's agreement with the UCI is that if sales to the public are ever an enforced requirement, "we'll start taking orders tomorrow.")
But the prototype question hints at a larger truth: the issue may not be as simple as which bikemakers sought permission and which didn't. It's whether the rules are uniform, and uniformly enforced.
The bike that became the Trinity Advanced SL dates to the 2008 season and won a TT stage at that year's Tour in substantially similar shape to today's bike. Juskaitis claims that, several times, Giant forwarded schematics and prototype frames to the UCI for approval and were given verbal OKs, but never in writing (he concedes they did not explicitly request a written OK). Not until this year did they learn that the UCI was now leaning toward disqualifying the bike – after Giant had put it into production for 2010.
"Obviously with the expense to bring a bike, especially a composite bike, to market we wanted to make sure we covered our bases," Juskaitis says. "We never set out to cheat the system. The problem is that we were never clear about what the system was."
The stated intent of the UCI rules is to respect fairness in racing – to prevent well-capitalized organizations from essentially buying race victories. But while trade teams and commercial bikemakers are seeing the brunt of the impact of that effort, the impetus behind it is not pro racing at all, but the Olympic movement.
The poster child for the fairness campaign is British Cycling, which is part of a program with UK Sport and the Formula One team McLaren to provide technical expertise to national teams in several sports, including cycling.
The bikes that British Cycling track athletes raced at events like the Beijing Olympics were expensive one-offs not available to any other team, and are not even prototypes for a commercial bikemaker. Although BC has sold old team bikes on occasion in the past there is no plan to ever bring them to market regularly. In all these respects, they're directly in contrast to the letter and spirit of the UCI rules.
But citing rules uniformity in all competitions as "a pillar of regulations," the UCI does not differentiate between equipment rules for the Olympics and other events – even though a "Merckx rule" or similar approach to the Games would essentially achieve the IOC's goals while leaving pro racing alone.
Trade teams generally have far more similar levels of resources than do rival national federations. But with the Olympic cycle still two full years out, it's pro racing that's witnessing the biggest impact.
Further, there's some question about how substantial an effect frame design really has on results. It's more or less impossible to separate a frame from all of the other aspects affecting bike and rider aerodynamics. "But generally, if you swap a regular round-tubed road frame to an aerodynamic frame, you gain maybe a minute over 40 kilometers," says Dr. Kim Blair, an MIT aerodynamicist who now directs the sports engineering practice at Cooper Perkins.
That's a lot of time, even in a three-week stage race. But no ProTour or Pro Continental team rides round-tubed bikes in time trials except at far-flung events like the Tour of Qatar, and there mostly for logistical reasons. If you take two pretty good time trial bikes, Blair continues, depending on the yaw angle of the wind, you could see as much as 20 percent difference between their drag co-efficients.
That still sounds like a lot. But, Blair points out, "that's 20 percent of the difference between two very small numbers." If you put a rider on those bikes, even in theoretically the same position, "that can drop to three, five, maybe two percent. And there are so many other variables – does the rider keep his helmet in the aero position 50 percent or 70 percent of the time?"
Given all the variables, the actual difference between two aerodynamic time trial frames, he concludes, "gets down into the noise." In other words, differences in frame design are, if not insignificant, close enough to see it from there.
If fairness is the goal, Blair added, teams' wind tunnel time should be capped because rider position (refinable in testing) is the single most important aspect of aerodynamic efficiency.
But all of these decisions – significant or no – affect amateur racers. National federations are generally bound to use the same UCI rules themselves, even for most amateur classes. So while the primary market for most of these bikes is the multisport athlete, bikemakers acknowledge that an amateur masters' athlete may run the risk of spending five figures on a bike that is not legal for the most important races he wants to enter.
"In general, we believe everyone should be following the same rules," says USA Cycling's technical director Shawn Farrell. "But there are times when we don't do so." Currently, USAC rules for any national championship event for ages 17 and up follow UCI rules, as well as national record attempts, for both professional and amateur classes.
Earlier this year, USA Cycling caused a stir by moving to ban some bikes in some categories along the UCI's lines, but recently rescinded the rule. As of now, the organization's stance is if it was legal in 2009, it's legal in 2010. Farrell says that the organization is aware of the new UCI rules and is waiting for some decision and guidance before making its own decisions. "What these rules will be in 2011 is still up in the air," he says.
All of that puts bikemakers – and bike buyers – in a fairly difficult position. Specialized launched the Shiv to dealers even as it was putting the finishing touches on what Nic Sims calls "Shiv 2.0," a UCI-legal version of the bike that skips the nose cone and refines some tube sections to be rules-compliant. (This is the bike that Alberto Contador has been racing since Paris-Nice, and Gustav Larsson raced at Romandie.)
Sims said that design may become a running change to the for-sale Shivs or offered as a retrofit kit for interested buyers, but Specialized had not made a firm decision yet on what, if any, changes would be made to the for-sale Shiv. Sims said that Specialized is clearly targeting the tri market but is aware that "a few people will be affected" if USA Cycling elects to ban the current version.
Giant is also working on UCI-legal revisions and will likely launch a new bike to the market in 2011 on the heels of the Trinity Advanced SL. But the question is what, other than a UCI legal bike, will consumers get with these new designs?
Making the Shiv and Trinity legal entails substantial front-end revisions, which will likely make the new bikes slower. There are other potential effects. Both designs use the nose cone not merely as a fuselage but to increase front-end stiffness for better steering and braking. If the UCI-legal designs replace existing bikes, it affects choices not just for USAC racers, but the vastly larger amateur multisport market too.
So if the bikes might be slower, and the primary market is triathletes – who aren't in any way concerned with UCI or USAC rules – then why don't bikemakers chuck the UCI rules altogether when designing bikes?
The answer is that even though triathletes buy most of the bikes, bikemakers say that it's important both from a marketing and product development standpoint to refine the bikes on the ProTour. Elite bike racers – displaying staggering wattage outputs and handling skills on courses that often push bikes to their limits more than triathlon courses – are essential to testing and proving designs; from a marketing standpoint, even Ironman Hawaii doesn't have nearly the same media power as the Tour de France.
That, perhaps, is GOCEM's ultimate weakness. Without bikemakers, pro racing literally would not roll. Increasingly, bikemakers provide operating capital to teams, not just materiel and development resources; GOCEM estimates that cycling equipment manufacturers supply approximate 100 million Euro per year in product, support and direct investment to teams. "We invest millions in this program, and all in the end result of building faster bikes for consumers," says Giant's Juskaitis. "We should have a say in this."
But as Scott Bicycles' Scott Montgomery points out, they're also a captive participant. "The approach GOCEM took is, 'You have to work with us because we're vital to the picture and if we go away you're screwed.' But as long as there's 100 other bikemakers in line, show me a company that steps out of the sport and they have stepped out of the game (of product development)."
In other words, companies like Cervelo, Giant and Specialized have no other options if they want to stay at the forefront of cycling. They can't leave the sport without sacrificing integral marketing and product development programs. And, despite their considerable investment, because they're more replaceable than non-endemic title sponsors, they can't win a seat at the stakeholder table.
But that may change due to the most unremarked portion of the rules: the sales-to-the-public aspect. In the past 18 months, in-race development has severely curtailed among bikemakers. Bike companies are far more cautious about race-testing equipment than in the past (or at least far more cautious about talking about it).
"We try things, but most of it is off the shelf," said Trek's Coates. "I'd love to test a new TT bike like we did in 2004, when Lance ran a totally custom, million dollar TT bike that he didn't end up using, but we can't do that. We can't risk a rider getting disqualified because he's on a prototype. So the focus has shifted to instead of testing new products, to trying things that are already available (to consumers)."
Every bikemaker we spoke with supported the idea that technical regulations should exist and be uniformly followed. But there's a genuine question whether the UCI's approach is meeting those goals or, even more broadly, focused on the right priorities.
"Should there be rules and regulations?" asks Blair. "Certainly. But I question whether or not what they're looking at and legislating out really are the driving factors."
Indeed – chasing a manufacturer down over a 2mm violation of a downtube cross-section seems absurd compared to a team with the resources to purchase dozens or even hundreds of hours of wind-tunnel time to refine rider positions.
What has the greater effect? The frame, or the sheer amount of time and energy put into aero studies in general?
Go back to that Romandie time trial. The rider who won was Saxo Bank's Richie Porte, an ex-triathlete who obviously made use of all that on-the-edge-of-legal technology on the Shiv, right? Except that Specialized hasn't been able to get all of its riders on Astana and Saxo Bank equipped with UCI-legal Shiv 2.0 frames. So Porte rode – and won – on a Transition, a design that's over two years old.
Tags: aerodynamics, Cervelo, Cervelo Test Team, equipment, Giant, Giro d'Italia, Pro Racing, Scott, Specialized, technical regulations, Tour de France, Trek, UCI
The usual impeccable timing – good reasons?
by Joe Lindsey
Look, there's never a "good" time for a doping case in cycling. But the UCI's timing in announcing it's opening passport cases against three riders is pretty stunningly bad.
Just a day or so ago CyclingNews treated us to a Roberto Bettini photo journal of a number of Giro hopefuls reconnoitering the Plan des Corones TT stage. One was Franco Pellizotti, who won this stage in 2008 and was one of the podium favorites this time around. Now he's out of the race altogether.
Pellizotti was third in last year's Giro and won the KoM competition in the Tour de France. According to Gazzetta dello Sport, which broke the story, the UCI has been watching his passport results at least since then.
It all raises the question of why they waited. Well, Pellizotti's season mostly ended after the Tour last year; he raced the Tour of Missouri and not much else. So officials may not have had a lot of data that reflected serious training (which is when a rider would dope) and may have had to wait until this season to get confirmatory data.
As well, there's a rumor that the UCI alerted all three riders and allowed them an opportunity to provide an alternate justification for the funky values. I don't know if that's true, but it wouldn't surprise me and it seems prudent; little would kill the passport system faster than an aggressive pursuit of an innocent rider.
And I also appreciate that officials want to act in time to keep riders out of important races. They've done that here. The only thing worse than canning Pellizotti before the Giro would be starting proceedings after it's finished.
But the timing does give some ammo to the detractors who claim that anti-doping authorities manipulate cases for maximum press advantage. And yes, it's probably fair to say that there's more reaction to this now than if they'd announced it in, oh, March.
I wish they were able to put this stuff forward in a manner that didn't screw up the race. But I guess it's more important to me that they get it right.
On the Other Hand
Dear CAS: fast-track Alejandro Valverde's case now. What's happening now is not just slow justice, it's a mockery of it.
The original case here – Operacion Puerto – turns four years old later this month. The Italian ban that the UCI wants to make global is over 12 months old. In that time, Valverde has won six major stage races, including the 2009 Dauphine Libere and Tour of Spain. He's currently the world's top-ranked rider.
CAS has a responsibility to move surely. But they can also move swiftly when the urgency strikes them (as they did in ruling that Valverde could race the World Championships in 2007).
I don't profess to know what they'll decide, although Valverde has lost every round of both of his appeals thus far. And if I were a betting man, I'd bet on a ban – while he's not tested positive, the pile of evidence is larger and more rotten than an urban landfill. And I'm not the only one tired of watching this show.
His Caisse d'Epargne management just sits there with big shit-eating grins on their faces, shrugging and acting like it'd be a national crime to hold him out of racing until the decision is heard. Well, tell that to BMC, where Alessandro Ballan is still on the pine even as Mauro Santambrogio's name is cleared, even as Ballan is investigated for activities that – if they occurred – did so on Lampre's watch, not BMC's.
And not that riders have ever spoken with one voice, but it would be interesting to see the pack stand up and say they would not race with Valverde. Or race unified against him – any attack, instantly neutralized by 15, 20 teams. After all, it's the riders who are most affected by all this.
If Valverde's ban is upheld, how many race results need to be re-written? How many guys were deprived of podium ceremonies, winnings and newspaper headlines? Is this gonna be like the IOC, which after a decade finally figured out that a Chinese gymnast was underage when she competed? Tell me that took a decade of research.
Unlike the UCI's passport case, this is not turning on fresh evidence. The question before the tribunal is simple: does the UCI have the power to take a national ban and make it international in scope? Given WADA's rules about reciprocity of bans among anti-doping code signatories (CONI and the UCI are two) the rule seems clear. The reasons for dawdling? Not so much. Get on it, people.
On the Lighter Side:
-Click on this excellent post from The Cycling Inquisition, if only to see what Jonathan Vaughters' hair looked like back in the Porcelana-Santa Clara days. If he's taking requests, I'd also like to hear his thoughts on Fabio Duarte's return.
-Last week I mentioned that the AP had on two stages gotten the results wrong from Tour of the Gila, crediting Lance Armstrong with vastly better finishes than he really had. To my great amusement, the wire services in general covered themselves in glory over the weekend.
First, the AP again miscredited Armstrong's finish on the stage 3 time trial and then mis-spelled Trek-Livestrong rider and stage winner Jesse Sergent's name. Not to be outdone, Agence France Presse's wire story from the criterium mentioned that the Stage 5 Gila Monster race was a 40-lap affair. Unless they meant the crit was 40 laps, I guess Lance really did go there for the race miles.
But hey, they're French, so what do they really know about what happens in Nouveau Mexico? The gaffe of the weekend, however, was at the Rund um Finanplatz Frankfurt, where AFP wrote that Fabian Wegmann's win gave his beleagered team a boost in their sponsor hunt.
All true, except the sponsor was listed as…Gerolsteiner, which folded at the end of 2008. A subsequent version of the story corrected that to Milram. Good to know Hans Holczer's still out there getting his money's worth for his sponsor.
That's all for me today. I'm here all week, and in a few days we'll have some more fun with news that might upset the teams at the Giro.
Tags: Alejandro Valverde, CONI, Doping, Franco Pellizotti, Giro d'Italia, UCI


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The Internet Lifestyle Requires Massive Action
The Internet lifestyle is an awesome way of life. My last book is called Living the Internet Lifestyle because it has changed my life completely. But it may not be what you think. It refers to our ability to do something we enjoy from anywhere in the world, and being able to choose your own hours. It represents a freedom in our lives few people get to experience until they retire.
Leveraging the power of the Internet includes taking advantage of improved automation tools that allow us to enjoy our day to day lives while our businesses hum along smoothly in the background. My clients and students are on six continents and in more than fifteen countries around the world.
While I was working as a classroom teacher and also in real estate I had no time of my own to speak of, bosses that treated me terribly at times, and very little time or money to travel, spend time with family and friends, and little opportunity to be involved with charities and volunteering. I now have both active and passive streams of income in which to live the life I choose.
But getting all of this in place takes time, planning, and massive action. I've never seen anyone make significant progress towards an online business without massive action. The people who lead you to believe you can create the Internet lifestyle for yourself without doing the work and laying the foundation are not being honest with you.
These days I spend about fifteen hours a week actually working in my business, but that was not the case during my first year online. When you're starting out, it takes even greater action to gain momentum. When someone tells me they envy my lifestyle I always remind them that my life today is a result of the hard work, effort, and massive action I took in the beginning.
Those who are successful make a commitment to doing so. They turn off the television, stop going out with friends, and give up sleeping in on the weekend. They save money by not going out to restaurants and skipping their yearly vacation. If your family is supportive and believes in what you are working to build, they will understand this completely. If not, then it's your job to convince them.
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Learning Modalities: Auditory Learners
Are you familiar with the concept of learning modalities? These are the sensory channels or pathways through which individuals give, receive, and store information. Perception, memory, and sensation comprise the concept of modality. The modalities or senses include visual, auditory, tactile/kinesthetic, smell, and taste. There are three primary learning modalities, including visual, auditory, and tactile/kinesthetic.
We will focus here on the auditory learning modality and how it relates to your online business. Did you know that a large portion of the population, at least thirty percent, retains information better when they hear it than when they read it? Auditory learners must hear what they are learning to really understand it. They enjoy listening, but cannot wait to have a chance to talk themselves. These students respond well to lecture and discussion. If you are creating information products or writing books, these are the people who will want to have an audio or mp3 version of what you have created.
This is one of the many reasons that it pays to offer audio as an option for your site visitors. Here are some additional ones:
- Audio can inject personality into your website in a way that text and graphics can't. There's just something special and unique about hearing someone's voice that makes site visitors feel welcome.
- Audio is convenient. Those who want or need to multitask can listen to audio while doing something else. They do not have to be right in front of the computer screen to use it. You can also make audio available for download to an iPhone, iPod or MP3 player, so your visitors can take it with them wherever they go.
- Using audio will most definitely separate you from the competition. Many sites and products do not utilize audio, and if yours does, those who enjoy it will be likely to come back to you instead of seeking out your competition.
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There are plenty of different ways that you can incorporate audio into your online business. Here are a few to consider:
- Record a podcast. This is similar to blogging, only it is done in audio form. Users can subscribe to your podcast so that it is automatically downloaded to their feed readers or iPods.
- Host a streaming talk radio show. This is a great way to get targeted visitors to your website, and it allows you to interact with your audience by accepting calls or answering emails while you're on the air.
- Offer recordings of online conferences or presentations for download. This gives visitors an incentive to come to your site as well, and it may entice them to participate in future conferences.
- Record a message for site visitors. Tell them a little about yourself, suggest areas of the site to visit first, or just welcome them. This adds a unique personal touch.
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There are a number of file formats that you can use when saving audio, but it is important to use popular ones so that your users will be able to listen to them. The most popular format for most types of recorded audio is MP3. It offers great file compression while preserving the quality of the audio. Virtually every computer has an application that can play MP3 files. The Windows operating system comes with Windows Media Player, which will play these and several other types of audio files.
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Podcast: Laurisa White Reyes Children's Book Author
Laurisa White Reyes is a children's book author and editor-in-chief of Middle Shelf magazine. She is also a mother of five, ages six to twenty, and active in her community. We met when her teenaged son was looking for book donations for his Eagle Scout project, and we soon realized we had much in common around reading, writing, and publishing books. I asked her to be a guest on my podcast so that we could get to know her better and to learn more about writing and publishing fiction through traditional publishing houses.
She shared with me that she had wanted to be a writer for as long as she could remember. Laurisa wrote a poem at age five that launched her as a writer, at least in the eyes of her family. After college, she spent thirteen years writing for various magazines and newspapers, working as a book editor, and teaching creative writing. But what Laurisa really wanted to do was write novels. So about six years ago she turned her attention to fiction. She reads to her five children at night before bed. One night her oldest son, the one who just became an Eagle Scout, asked her to make up a story instead. That story eventually became a fantasy entitled The Rock of Ivanore. She spent a year writing it, two years submitting it to publishers, and three years getting it from contract to publication. She says that it's been a long process, but well worth the wait. Laurisa also has a second book out, The Last Enchanter, and both of these titles are a part of a series she calls The Celestine Chronicles.
We discussed the writing process, especially for those of us with busy schedules. Finding the time to write regularly is her biggest challenge right now. We also talked about the process of going through an agent and a traditional publisher. It's a very different world from what entrepreneurs are able to do with self-publishing.
I know you will enjoy this interview with children's book author Laurisa White Reyes. Her books are available on Amazon, if you have an interest in this fascinating genre.
Driving Targeted Traffic To Your Blog
You may have seen the movie Field of Dreams, where Kevin Costner builds a baseball field in the middle of the countryside and people come from far and near to visit. This concept of 'if you build it they will come' is a romantic one, but does not apply to your business. Probably the trickiest part for any online entrepreneur is getting targeted traffic to their sites. This is more science than art and has spawned an industry all of its own. Search engine optimization or SEO as it's more affectionately referred to, is a major player in how you get targeted traffic to your sites or in this case, your blogs.
Driving Targeted Traffic To Your Blog
There are other promotional and marketing strategies that you can employ to get traffic, but it all starts with optimizing your blogs for SEO. If you want your blog to be found, you have to optimize it for the search engines. Google and the other search engines will crawl you site to see what it's about, and then send traffic (people) who are searching for those specific topics. It must be general enough to garner attention, yet specific enough to weed out those you are actually searching for very different information.
The level of optimization you can perform on your blog depends once again on whether you're using a free platform or a hosted one.
A blogging platform like WordPress.org is the best way to go for SEO purposes. There are no limits as to how you can customize your WordPress.org (hosted) blog. But because most beginners tend to use the free blog platforms, we'll explore SEO tactics that everyone can benefit from.
Split Your Blog's Search Engine Optimization into Offsite And Onsite SEO
Offsite SEO can be summed up as just this – inbound links. This means blogs other than your own, are linking to your blog and a wide variety of your content. Inbound links are quite possibly the most important SEO tactic that could get your blogs highly ranked in the search engines.
So how do you get others to link to you? Here are some ways to get you started:
Write Quality Content – Nothing gets you links faster than writing content that affects your readers. If a little bit of controversy helps, throw that in. As word gets around about your posts, bloggers will inevitably link to you.
Post Comments On Blogs You Read – Don't hesitate to post worthwhile comments on other blogs, be it your competitors or not, but realize blog comments themselves don't have impact on your SEO results. You may get a follow-up with a link pointing to your blog. And if that happens to be from a competitor with a huge audience, you'll be looking at some major traffic influx to your blog.
Submit Your Blog To Directories – You can submit your blogs to blog directories to generate more inbound links. Apart from buying links, this is something many bloggers do to get more traffic. Technorati.com and DayPop.com are amongst two of the more popular blog directories right now, but you can perform a Web search to find more.
Onsite SEO requires customization within your blog itself. Here's how to get started:
Optimize Your Content With Targeted Keywords – This topic really requires intense study, as it is one of the more important subjects when discussing SEO. But in a nutshell, your blog posts should contain the keywords or keyword phrases that your potential customers or readers would most likely type into the search engines to find what they are looking for.
This requires advanced research of keywords on your part so that you can place these targeted keywords within your blog content. The result would be a highly optimized blog for the very information your potential customers are looking for.
Have each of your posts focused on one specific topic so that you can moderate the keywords going into your content. Over-stuffing keywords can make for terrible reading which defeats the purpose of finding and keeping your customers.
Make your posts as original as possible and update your blog frequently, at least three times a week.
Place Your Keywords Here Too – Within the URL of the page, page and post titles, heading tags such as H1, image alt tags and meta tags. Bold your keywords where you can too.
Create A Good Linking Structure Within Your Blog – Create links that link from a certain post in your blog to another relevant post which you had written previously. This interlinking makes it very easy for search engines to re-index your blog, allowing for more of your pages to be indexed. Categorize your information and place them on your blog's sidebar. Create a sitemap once your blog starts growing larger in size.
But one thing to remember is not to over-optimize your blog. Write naturally and don't overdo it with keywords. Use descriptive wording and use synonyms rather than repeating the same keyword phrases over and over. Following these strategies will increase the amount of targeted traffic you receive to your blog, and will ultimately increase your bottom line as well.
Become A Local Celebrity to Grow Your Business Exponentially
When you become a local celebrity and the world can be your oyster. Recently I had a special dinner with a friend at an Italian place in Santa Barbara called Ca'Dario. The owner is an overnight sensation thirty years in the making, who followed his passion when he came to America to learn the restaurant business. I think many of us can relate to this in that everything we achieve during our lives is the result of many years of hard work and preparation. Knowing exactly what you want at a young age can certainly be helpful, but this does not ensure that it will take less time or effort.
When I met the restaurant's owner I complimented him on the food and the restaurant and then asked how he had learned to market his business so well. His answer surprised me; he said that he told a few 'key' people what he was doing as he went along. He knew they would spread the word, helping to make his restaurant a success.
This is brilliant, and you can do this for your own business as well. It's not the same as word-of-mouth advertising; it's more of a focused way of letting people know who you
are and what you have to offer them. Especially in a small town like Santa Barbara, this type of face to face interaction can catapult you to the top of your field very quickly.
Have you identified some key people or groups in your city that would be interested in knowing more about what you are doing in your online business? Take the time to make a list, and then seek them out to share your thoughts and ideas. I've done this with some of the charities I am involved with and have found the people to be quite open to spreading the word about my business.
Some examples of this are that I now write a monthly column for a local print magazine that is owned by someone in my Rotary Club; I've been interviewed on the radio as a result of connecting with the owners of the station; and I was given an award by my city's Arts Council when I connected with someone on the City Council.
Make the effort to become a local celebrity and your business may grow exponentially.
Podcast: Sue Guiher on Coaching and Transformation
Sue Guiher is a powerhouse when it comes to coaching and marketing, and that's why I wanted to interview her for my podcast series. After spending more than twenty years in Corporate America working in marketing and sales, Sue decided to step away from that world in favor of a life as an coach and entrepreneur where she would have more time with her family. She also teaches at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
We discussed how she came to leave the corporate world and become an entrepreneur. After working from a laptop in the hospital as she awaited an emergency C-Section for the birth of her son in July of 1999 she realized that she had become a 'corporate-aholic'. While on maternity leave she had an epiphany around the life she wanted to create for herself and her family. With a passion for teaching and helping others to reach their full potential, Sue sought out mentors who could help guide her path. She began working with Michael Port and now trains his coaches on how to serves their clients with high level business coaching.
She is an expert in taking people's information and knowledge and turning it into programs by 'modulizing' it into a system that works so that everyone benefits. She does this for a variety of industries, including Internet marketing and online training. She teaches about 'Core Essence' and how that should show up in what you offer others. Sue feels that my Core Essences are around security, connection, and service in helping people to earn income through an online business and I agree completely with that assessment of what we discussed. Hers are teaching, transformation, and thriving. This is fascinating information that we can use to change our lives through our work. As long as you're moving forward you can thrive and prosper.
Sue takes people through a transformative process to see where their strengths are and how they can best use these to serve others. Her clients have experienced huge shifts simply by working with her to find out more about their core values and exploring what type of business would best serve their needs.
Sue also takes us through an exercise during this interview to help us leave perfectionism behind and move into the space of creating the business we desire as quickly as possible. This will shift your thinking and attitude immediately and get you into positive, inspired action.
She has set up a special page where you can go through the Core Essences Exercise to gain better insight into what you are doing as an entrepreneur. I've done that and I encourage you to do it now while you are thinking about it.
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Finding Your Inner Entrepreneur
Are you releasing your inner entrepreneur as you build your online business? Entrepreneurship is different from most anything else you will ever go after in your life. There are no rules, no bosses, no schedule, and no direction. You must find your way intuitively and forge ahead using everything you have.
The 'up' side to finding and nurturing your inner entrepreneur is that you will be free forever; free from a life that includes confinement, structure, and consistency. This can also be the downside of this lifestyle, yet truly engaged entrepreneurs will tell you that they wouldn't have it any other way.
As for me, I have never been so fulfilled in all my life. Each day I wake up alive with ideas on what I will be doing to grow my business. It's as though I am seeing the world and everything in it with fresh, new eyes and that's a dream come true. I'm excited, happy, and productive and the outcome is extremely profitable. I truly believe it's because I'm passionate about what I do. Successful entrepreneurs are always passionate about what they do and how they serve others. And here's why that matters…
When you're passionate about something you will do it well no matter what that might be. When you do something well you become successful at it far more easily. When you're successful at something, you enjoy it even more and that enjoyment makes you even more passionate.
And so the circle continues because the passion for what you're doing grows and grows and grows. And you grow too.
Your life changes. New things are more important and you become more passionate about stuff that you might never have had the time to think about before you found your first passion.
I get emails from people who say they're unsure of which niche to choose, are having difficulty coming up with ideas for products, and have very little confidence when it comes to reaching out to other entrepreneurs. It is because they are not passionate about what they are doing.
Find your passion by finding your inner entrepreneur and the success and income will find you.
Podcast: Carol Amato
Carol Amato is one of the most interesting people I've connected with during 2013. She is relatively new to online business and marketing, yet has already become someone others turn to for help with setting up their own businesses. We first became acquainted through the site 'Just Retweet', where she was kind enough to retweet my Twitter posts and join my list. Soon we were emailing and that's when I decided that I must introduce you to her by having her as a guest on my podcast series.
Something I learned about Carol is that she speaks fluent Carinise, a Sicilian dialect, and speaks it like a native according to the people she knows in Sicily. She and her entire family are self-proclaimed foodies and enjoy everything about delicious food. She and her husband live in northeastern Pennsylvania and they have three adult children.
During this interview Carol shares how and why she came online in 2011, what it's like to have an online business, and how she helps others to get started. We share a deep respect and affection for Dennis Becker, and speak about that as well. I love how we connect with someone and then end up connecting with many other people as well, all as a result of having an online business as an entrepreneur.
Carol is an example of someone who saw the opportunity available to those working online, jumped in to learn as much as could, and took immediate action to build her business quickly. I hope you are doing the same thing as you get closer to having an online business you can run from home or from wherever in the world you happen to be.
I know you will enjoy my conversation with Carol. Be sure to visit her site and join her list if it is of interest to you. I believe you will learn much by connecting with Carol there and on social media.
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Blogging For Business: Tips on Marketing With Your Blog
There are so many different types of blogs, and some of them are for a variety of uses besides marketing for your business. Even my first blog, started in 2005 while I was still a classroom teacher, was not for business in any way. I had started a Blogger site on Google's Blogspot platform in order to better serve my students with information and technology.
On May 2, 2005 Business Week magazine published a cover story entitled 'Blog Will Change Your Business' and the world took notice. While I was not even aware of that story until much later, I know that my simple little blog had a huge impact in the way I communicated with my students, other teachers, and parents.
When it comes to blogging for your business, think of this as opening the doors to awareness and participation. Awareness of who you are, what you're doing, who you serve, and what you know about your niche topic. Participation in the form of involvement, maintaining a conversation with your readers, and encouraging feedback with comments and guest posts. At no other time in our history have businesses enjoyed such a rich culture of instant interaction and masterminding on a site accessible by people around the world. And instead of your prospects and clients talking amongst themselves, they have the opportunity to talk directly with you, and you with them in a manner that encourages openness and an exchange of ideas leading to improved products, services, and customer relations.
The blogospehere ( a term coined to refer collectively to all blogs and their interactions) has become a vast field of thoughts, dreams, and ideas, yet most blogs are abandoned soon after being set up. With an estimated two hundred million blogs online during 2013, that's a lot of lonely electrons out there in cyberspace. I have to admit that a dozen or so of that number were mine; forgotten when I changed my mind about writing on a certain topic.
Once you get into the habit of blogging a couple of time each week you will find your voice and understand the true value of blogging for business. I run a seven figure business from my blogs and many other entrepreneurs do the same.
So when it comes to blogging for your business, tips for marketing include creating fresh and relevant content to drive targeted traffic, adding an optin box with a free giveaway to build your list, and inviting comments to increase visibility and credibility. Your blog is your 'home on the Internet', so make it a warm and inviting place to receive readers, prospects, and clients.


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[edit] Satire and parody based on The Lord of the Rings
- An independent film company in South Carolina released this treatment as a college humor project.
- A soft core porn comedy entitled "The Lord of the G-Strings".
- The Harvard Lampoon satire Bored of the Rings, and its prequel The Soddit.
- A little-known BBC Radio series, Hordes of the Things (1980) attempted to parody heroic fantasy in the style of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
- A German resynchronization of the Fellowship's first twenty minutes, called Lord of the Weed - Sinnlos in Mittelerde [1], portrays the characters as highly drug addicted.
- Quickbeam and Bombadil, The Lords of the Rhymes, mix Tolkien's fantasy world with hip-hop.
- Two New York City based authors, Jessica and Chris, parody Tolkien's work in combination with Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Once More With Hobbits: [2] .
- Several former members of Mystery Science Theater 3000 created Edward the Less which parodies the trilogy.
- The episode of South Park entitled "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers" spoofs Peter Jackson's version of the trilogy. A few elements from Jackson's The Return of the King appear in the episode "Best Friends Forever".
- The first chapter of The Woad To Wuin by Peter David is entitled "Lord of the Thing".
- The Lord Of The... whatever, a "transcribed electronic text version", written by the Tolkien fans of the rec.arts.books.tolkien newsgroup as a reply to those who ask where can they download an electronic copy of the book. It has lots of fan in-jokes, like whether Balrogs have wings or not, a long-standing debate in the Tolkien fandom.
- Flight of the Conchords claim that their parody Frodo was rejected as a theme song for Peter Jackson's movies. Incidentally, Bret McKenzie (one half of the band) played an elf in the Fellowship, and his character (now known as Figwit) has become an unusual web celebrity, attracting fan sites and even a hate site.
- The Ring Thing - a Swiss parody of The Lord of the Rings (film series), however it has received mixed reviews.
- MADtv spoofed the series with The Lords of the Bling, with various actors/actresses portraying characters as Gandalf, Frodo, Legolas, etc.
- Kingdom O' Magic, by Fergus McNeill. He became famous during the eighties for games such as Bored of the Rings (influenced by, but not adapted from, the Harvard Lampoon book) and The Boggit.
- Why can't they just lose the ring in the sink?, humour columnist Dave Barry's satire.
- Dead Ringers, BBC Radio/TV satirical comedy show regularly features Lord of the Rings-themed sketches, usually with the characters of Gandalf, Saruman and Frodo.
- Bobo, a very popular Serbian voice-over video on scene from the first film, which features Boromir and Frodo as gay lovers. It spawned many other voice-overs.
- British Comedy duo French & Saunders have also satired and spoofed in detail Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring in a BBC 2002 Easter Special entitled "The Egg".
- A parody entitled teh l0rd of teh Ringz0r has done the rounds of bulletin boards systems. Based on the Counter-Strike indebted '1337 speak' it retells scenes, primarily from the Peter Jackson films, in the style of a '1337 hax0r' or online gamer.
- A Spanish voice-over video of Gollum debating about which is the best football (soccer) video game.
- One Man Lord of the Rings A one man show by Charles Ross, reciting and parodying the three films in an hour.
- In an episode of The Simpsons, The Simpsons go on a picnic with someone named Cookie. When they have finished, Marge asks Cookie what to do with their garbage. Cookie says to leave it for 'Cleany'. On hearing his name, Cleany comes out and wraps up their garbage in their picnic rug, saying Gollum's tagline 'My Precious'. Cleany was voiced by Andy Serkis.
- REC Studios' Fellowship of the Ring A parody starring four people portraying multiple characters each and condensing the first third of the story to under a quarter of an hour.
- In another episode of The Simpsons, Principal Skinner announced to Springfield Elementary School that they are going to have school medieval festival. Class bully Nelson excitedly asks, "You mean like The Lord of the Rings?!", and Skinner replies, "No! Nothing like The Lord of the Rings!"
- MTV produced the Lord of the Piercing, a parody with Jack Black and Sarah Michelle Gellar about the Council of Elrond, in which Frodo uses the One Ring in a piercing. The 4 minute episode comes as a hidden extra in the first DVD of the 4-disc set of The Fellowship of the Ring.
- Fellowship! - A musical parody of The Lord of the Rings
- Worth 1,000 - Comical images related to The Lord of the Rings.
- 50 Reasons Why Lord of the Rings Sucks - Only to be read if no sharp objects are within reach.
- Lord of the Rings vs. The Matrix vs. Star Wars - Comical review of the three movies, not to be taken even remotely seriously.
- The BBC Two sketch show Dead Ringers frequently parodied The Lord of the Rings (film series).
- A new parody of The Hobbit and LotR published on Amazon entitled High As A Hobbit, written by Timbly Prywater and Stevo Jackobottom.
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